The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-04
SOUTHERN oLEANINGs.


Revoire of New Orleans newspaper
fought a bloodless duel few days ago.
The shortage of Mr.. Joseph, treasurer OF /
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Of Texas, |
is s23, Is5
The bill to require railroad companies
to give thirty days notice before reduc-
ing ages, recently passed by the Teas
Senate, was sent TO the House. 1t was 80
amended as to require the employees to
give fifteen days notice of their accept
ance or rejection of the reduction.
Governor Ross Of Texas has ordered q
congress sional election for April s, to NIL
the place of Judge Reagan, recently elect
ed United States Senator.
Florida is shipping lots of garden truck
northward.
The decision Of Judge Van Epps at At
lanta, Ga. that VINE could not be sold by
tbs drink, even in licensed wine-rooms,
has greatly disturbed the wine-room
keepers. Half dozen Of them are under
indictment for selling by the drink, and
they fear that 81, 900 fines will be imposed
upon each Of them.
Green Butler and Monroe Hunt vera
drowned near Memphis, Tenn, few days
ago by the upsetting of a fiat-boat
There will be a general increase in the
acreage of cotton plaated ia Mississippi
this year Il present signs count for any
thing.
capt am w. i. hl8ns LOnOh6, AEh.f COAn-
mitted suicide few days ago by going IN
to his barn and hanging himself with
trace chain.
The Tennessee Senate has adopted the
House resolution instructing Represent
| atives in Congress TO use their influence
to prevent the Government from making
/ contracts with persons a1d hrTns employ
! ing convict labor
/ A congress ioe1ai convention meets at
] Dc ars1h n II
! successor to Hon. John H. Reagan
! John Kelly, a shoem ker of Pittsburgh,
Tex. committed suicide by ia king strych:
nine. and wac buried by the Knights OF
Labor.
/ 1t is reported that the Nashville & Chat
tanooga railroad has been sold to the
Richmond & Danville.
/ Governor Taylor of Tennessee has re-
auested the authorities OF the main and
branch prisons to furnish him with the
names Of al convicts under the age Of
fifteen years, the object being, 1t is uT1-
derstood, ei her to pardon them or to COM
mute their sentences! go.
The Tenness Senate has passed bill
allowing twenty-five dollars per month to
Tennessee soldiers who lost their ewes in
battle. ana such Federal soldiers from
Tennessee who lost their eyes in battle
and who are not pensioned by the General
Governme t.
J Henry Dodson, a worthless, insolent
vagab bond, was recently tried before Geo.
; L. Bradford and a jury at Augusta, KY,
| for mistreating his family. The jury after
) hearing all the evidence, returned YER
dict of guilty, and ordered him sold to the
, highest bidder at public auction for the
: period Of seventy-five days. Judge Brad
, ford has fixed March as the Law of sale.
This is the first case of the kind for many
l years. and much interest was manifested
! oh t1p TT1a ad NJ -
: resid nc in Madison County, Tenn, was
! found murdered IN the road near Pinson
> ten miles south of Jackson, few day:
ago The evidence at hand indicates tina
Jones was waylaid by Dan Hughes anf
killed with an axe Hughes is in 1al
charged with the crime
A law has Just been enacted in Texa
: making it a pen1l Offense to have bout tn
e person, saddle OF saddle-bags any pistol
5 dirk dagger. shot-~un, sword-caue, spear
knuckles, made of any hard substance
L bow e knife, or any other kind of a knife
n manufactured or sold for purposes Of OF
tense or defense. The penalty is fine Q
not less than twenty-five dollars or NOR
= than two hundred dollars, and from twen
n ty to fifty days in jliL
II In the case of BraZenton Whaley
l. charged with breaking into and robbnl
D. the post-Cffire at Williamsburg, Ky, ii
II Jury in the United States District Cour
r guilty
d It transpires that Henry Boggs, VIII
y murderousIy assaulted Rev. Stone H
* combe, at Louisville, Ky, is the slick dia
= mond thief who got away with abou
te 5000 worth Of precious stones b. the e1
- change game in Louisville. II ideltit
t. was discovered by means Of photo graoh
n Leota, Miss. is in gre at danger Of bein
d. washed away, as the banks are cavi n
n and the river making great encroacE
10 ments.
y The washe~women Of Atlanta, Ga, al
- on strikeagainst their poor-paying, uppe
- crust stomers, who delight in wearn
1t clean linen, but who are decidedly AYERS
to giving un good money for the cle~ lsin
process. Many Of the Iaundress IS are el
forcing the laborer's lien on the clothes
hand, and the situation is, to say the leas
interesting. The names Of many of Il
< ''bost" families in the city are involved.
81 The Tenuc ssee Association of Architec
ii ! was organized in Nashville, a few da!
.e since, with John L. Smith, of Nashviu
as pre- 5ident and T. L. Dismukes, Of Il
same city, as Secretary. The schedule
V charges of the Western Association al
- American Institute was adopted.
ST. A few nights ago seven out of the seve
th teen prisoners confined in the jail at Pin
r Bluff. Ark. escaped. Of those who c
n capped. five were negroes and two viii
IS men, all charged with grand larceny, c
cept one for robbery. They hc-=< -
from the iron floor in the middle cell in
the corridor. and from there through t
ia outer brick wall. By the long use of lin
and other acid disinfcctants the iron fc
sis had worn quite thin, and its penetrau
III. with proper implements was quite cas-
a; The Court mas offered a suitable rewai
dy Mr. Fred Blumline was engaged in fe
ire | ing a tree, near Cloyerport, XIV, fe
days ago, and in attempting to get out
nd the way as it came down, he STUN bled a
a. fell, the tree striking h m and crushi
HIM to death. Blumlne was a Germ
who removed from Cincinnati a #
months since wi a number of ott
IN workmeu, and has since been getting c
AT slaves.
O Isaac Gardner and his wife were pc
le- oned in rather a mysterious manner
g. Chattanooga. Tenn, few days ago. NJ
Gardner was dead and her husband dyl
~ at last accounts. The poison Is suppO7
i, to have been administered in the cof
they drank.
The rivers are falling again.
o' Twenty-Five Mormon elders from Ut
my arrived in Chattanooga, Tenn, few dE
= ago. and have scattered 10 various 7
tions of the South, to engage in tn
| proselyting work. There are now m
ov than one hundred missionaries N
re, South. and Eide John Morgan, in char
cu. Of the Southern hea qua rters, says tn
is a greater demand for elders than {
"A be supplied.
' ' The Greenville Cdiss) Council at a
'r cent informal meeting decided TO adv
-i'' sise for bids for building water-works,
" for making arrangements with any Ct
n" papy that viii build works for city
lis ire purposes.
FL Paso. Tex, is to be granted the +
~ mail delivery system.